Where parties disputed whether the plaintiff’s right to purchase an affordable housing development was triggered, there was no federal question jurisdiction. Although the housing development was created to take advantage of federal tax credits, resolution of the claims did not ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the defendant was sentenced to 168 months for engaging in a conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, but if sentenced today he would not be a career offender and his guidelines range would be 100 to ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a man injured when he crashed his bicycle into a metal guard gate claimed the maintenance contractor’s failure to post signs constituted negligence, he was not permitted to argue or offer evidence on that point because the contractor had ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III Negligence U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the plaintiff sought to patent a system and method for targeting specific content to individual users of a website, his application was properly denied because it was an abstract idea ineligible for patent protection under 35 U.S.C. § 101. ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a National Science Foundation employee requested no “airborne irritants” in the workplace, which would have included personal hygiene and standard cleaning products, her fatally vague and overbroad request was unreasonable as a matter of law. Background Neysa Call was ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a former Drug Enforcement Agency special agent alleged facts supporting his claim that he was forced to resign after submitting an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint, his retaliatory constructive discharge claim survived the motion to dismiss. Background Eric Katz has ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an alleged cybersquatter who held the PRU.COM domain name intended to divert customers from Prudential Insurance Company or wanted a six-figure payment for the name, and it had registered other domain names evidencing bad faith, PRU.COM was ordered transferred ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the former Selective Service System employee’s bias and whistleblower claims first needed to be exhausted before the Merit Systems Protection Board, or MSPB, the board failed to act for more than 500 days so the employee could proceed to ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria federal judge has ruled that post-accident evidence can be used in a trial over injuries suffered by a bicyclist when he struck a metal security gate that unexpectedly rose out of the street in front of him. The ...

Tagged with: Bicycle accident Judge T.S. Ellis III

Where the former employee voluntarily retired, the bank prevailed on the claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act because there was no adverse employment action. Background At issue in this Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, or ADEA, ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District